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...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String, Op. 115 (Busch Quartet with Reginald Kell; Victor: 8 sides). One of the world's ranking chamber-music groups gives Brahms's famous Clarinet Quintet an up-to-date recording...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor: 3 volumes, 46 sides). Though issued last spring to record-collectors, the Glyndebourne recording of Mozart's greatest opera waited until this month for its official release. Perfect teamwork and exquisitely styled singing by Baritone John Brownlee and Soprano Louise Helletsgruber help to make it the year's most notable record...
...owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening...